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Debra Scacco's research-based practice spans the creation of studio works, installations, public art, curating, teaching, writing, community engagement and oral history. Rooted in personal experiences of immigration, she re-envisions the visible and invisible lines that seek to establish boundaries of access and understanding.
Her work has been exhibited at galleries, institutions and public sites internationally including MOAH (Museum of Art and History), Lancaster; Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; LAX Airport, Los Angeles; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Viper Basel, Switzerland; Los Angeles State Historic Park, Los Angeles; Royale Projects, Los Angeles; James Cohen Gallery, New York and Patrick Heide Gallery, London. Her work is included in private and public collections including Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and CAA. Scacco's projects have been supported by National Endowment for the Arts, Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, The Durfee Foundation, Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, The Wilhelm Foundation, The Mellon Foundation and more. 1n 2019, she was acknowledged as a Cultural Trailblazer by the City of Los Angeles. In 2012, Scacco was the inaugural artist-in-residence at Ellis Island Museum and Statue of Liberty National Monument in conjunction with New Jersey City University.
Debra Scacco is Founding Director of climate-focussed creative research program Air Projects, Co-Director of Getty Pacific Standard Time project Brackish Water Los Angeles, and Co-Founder of art worker mutual aid cooperative Contemporary Art League. She is an organizing member of Artists Commit, an artist-led collective committed to a climate-conscious, resilient, and equitable future.Her efforts to lateralize knowledge and engage students in interdisciplinary research and an active studio practice include teaching at institutions including California State University Dominguez Hills and Occidental College.
Contact
Debra@DebraScacco.com
+1 310 699-5724
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Selected CV
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b. 1976, Staten Island, NY.
Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Water Gold Soil, MOAH Lancaster, 2022
2020 Compass Rose, Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica
2020 City Upon a Hill, Pluto Projects, Los Angeles
2019 Compass Rose, Oxy Arts, Los Angeles
2018 The Narrows, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles
2015 The Letting Go, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles
2013 The Space Between, Marine Contemporary, Los Angeles
2012 Richiama, Ellis Island Museum, New York
2012 Birds of Passage, Marine Contemporary, Los Angeles
2011 Forever In Between, Marine Art Salon, Los Angeles
Selected Public Works
2022 Harbor, Lincoln Park, Long Beach
2022 LA Stories, Figueroa Street, Highland Park, Los Angeles
2021 Networks of Power, Art in Residence (Western Mojave Desert)
2021 Living Memorial Garden, Los Angeles State Historic Park
2019 The Letting Go, LAX Airport (Arts Exhibition Program with Los Angeles World Airports and Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs)
2018 Origin and Destination Study, Los Angeles River
2018 The President Wilson, Statue of Liberty, New York City
2017 Origins: Los Angeles River 1815/1825, Los Angeles State Historic Park
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Confluence, Track 16, Los Angeles
2022 Unsettling California, University of California Santa Barbara
2021 Song of the Cicada, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
2021 Suturo, Suturo, Los Angeles
2020 Passing Time, Passing-Time.Org
2019 Lost in the Sky, LAX Airport, Los Angeles
2018 Archaeology of the Present, 411 Hewitt, Los Angeles
2018 Relative Space, Elevator Mondays, Los Angeles. Curated by Asha Bukojemsky
2018 AIR Artist-in-Residence, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
2017 VRBBQ, ICALA / Butcher Bird Studios, Los Angeles
2016 Office Hours, Beta Main, Los Angeles
2015 Via Negativa: The Transcendence of the unReal, South Bay Contemporary, Cerritos, California
2014 Salon Zürcher, Zürcher Studio, New York
2014 Reds, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
2013 Pulse New York, The Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC
2013 Drawing Now Paris, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
2012 (text)ure, Patrick Heide Contemporary, London, UK
2012 Artist-in-Residence, Statue of Liberty National Monument and
Ellis Island, in conjunction with New Jersey City University
2011 If these walls could talk: A conversation, Charlie James Gallery and Marine Art Salon, Los Angeles
2010 Outside the Lines, Royale Projects, Los Angeles
2010 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2010 Salon No. 3, Marine, Los Angeles, 2010
2009 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London followed by national tour
Public Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Los Angeles
Hamilton Press, Los Angeles
Fidelity Investments, Houston
Ellis Island Museum, New York
London Chamber of Commerce, City of London
International Art Consultants, London
The Media Centre, London
Private collections internationally
Curatorial
2022 Confluence, Track 16, Los Angeles
2021 Latitude, BioScienceLA, Los Angeles
2021 Song of the Cicada, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
2021 Castle Garden, Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles
2018 Cycles, Sony Pictures Lot, Los Angeles
2018 La Reina de los Ángeles, Sturt Haaga Gallery (Descanso Gardens), Los Angeles
2018 Defining Line, Los Angeles, River, Co-curated with Nancy Baker Cahill
2017 On Going Home, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, 2017. Part of Getty initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Featuring Tanya Aguiñiga, Carmen Argote, Shagha Ariannia, Regina Mamou, Alexis Zoto
1998 - 2002 Spitz Gallery, London, Curator at East London gallery supporting contemporary emerging and mid-career artists
Public Speaking
2022 Art for Earth’s Sake: The Art World Meets the Crisis, Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles
2022 Beyond All Measure: The Sea, the Sky, the Horizon of Our Transitional Present, Fulcrum Arts, Los Angeles
2020 What’s in a Landscape: The Changing Face of Monuments, Art in Residence in collaboration with Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
2020 Systems in Concrete: Cars, Trains and the Relocation of Chinatown, Los Angeles Public Library
2020 Possible Futures: Developing Plural Practices, ICALA, Los Angeles
2020 Amplifying the Green New Deal, YEA! (Young Entertainment Activists) Climate Summit, Los Angeles
2020 Art, Architecture and Activism, American Institute of Architects (AIA| LA) 2°C Climate Symposium, Los Angeles
2019 Build Your Own Systems, Warner Bros Studios, Los Angeles
2019 LA as Lab, Claremont Graduate University, Los Angeles
2018 Cultures of Art & Tech, Creative Industries Colloquium, Sotheby's Institute of Art, Los Angeles
2018 On Water, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles
2018 Archaeology of the Present: Artists Addressing Climate Change. Moderated by Megan Steinman. Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (ICALA), Los Angeles
2018 Art in the Open, Los Angeles State Historic Park
2018 Artist Talk. The Narrows. Klowden Mann, Los Angeles
2017 On Going Home: Art, immigration and tertiary culture. Featuring Tanya Aguiñiga, Carmen Argote, Shagha Ariannia, Regina Mamou, Alexis Zoto. Charlie James Gallery
2017 Origins / Promotorx Talk. Los Angeles State Historic Park
2016 Artist Talk. The Letting Go, Klowden Mann
Guest Lectures 2016 —
CalArts, Cal State Dominguez Hills, Cal State Northridge, Occidental College, UC Santa Barbara
Selected Press
2022 Los Angeles Times, "As Drought Deepens, Nine L.A. Artists Think about Water”, Christopher Knight, August
2022 Los Angeles Times, "L.A. artists take on drought crisis in new show. One solution? Embrace impermanence", Deborah Vankin,August
2022 Mozaik Philanthropy, EcoSystem X, "Hope and Beauty on the Edge of Collapse: The Artist as Care-Giver and Composter in Times of Ecological Uncertainty", Elisabeth Buchet-Deák, July
2021 KCET, "Climate Change-Focused Artist Residency Maps Out a New Future in the Pandemic", Carol Cheh, May
2018 "Concrete is Fluid", Podcast interview, Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio, July
2018 Los Angeles Times, "How virtual art appearing along the L.A. River tackles gentrification, immigration and environmental issues", Anna Furman, November
2018 Los Angeles Magazine, "Artists Using Augmented Reality… in Powerful Places", Brittany Martin, August
2018 Art and Cake, "Debra Scacco at Klowden Mann", Shana Nys Dambrot, February
2018 Riot Material, "On Immigration, Liminality, and Ellis Island: Debra Scacco’s The Narrows", Ellen C Caldwell, January
2018 Los Angeles Review of Books, Featured Artist, January
2018 Contemporary Art Review LA (CARLA), "Debra Scacco at Klowden Mann", Aaron Horst, January
2018 "What Artists Listen To", Podcast interview, Pia Pack, August
2017 Feminist Crush, Podcast interview, Kitty Lindsay, March
2016 Kchung, Performance Now, Hosted by Carol Cheh & John Tain, December
2016 New American Paintings, "Light, Letting Go and the LA River", Ellen C, Caldwell, September
2016 Insert Blanc Press, "Classical Music For Artists", David Richards, Geoff Tuck, January
2015 Instagram interview feature, "Explorations of Light and Layers", Andrew Owen, May
2014 Huffington Post, "44 Stunning Art Studios That Will Inspire You To Get Back To Work", Priscilla Frank, August
2013 Huffington Post, "The Space Between", Elizabeth Sobieski, November
2013 Manor House Quarterly, "Dark Art", James Metze, November
2012 Art in America, Feature on Art Platform Los Angeles, Paul Soto, October
2012 WhiteHot Magazine, Birds of Passage review, Megan Frances, July
2012 Beautiful Decay, "Debra Scacco unlocks the 3 keys of greatness at Marine Contemporary", Daniel Rolnik, 12 June
2012 Los Angeles Times, "Debra Scacco maps the psyche at Marine Contemporary", Leah Ollman, 25 May
Organizations and Initiatives
2022 - Artists Commit, Artist-led initiative to raise climate-consciousness,
Organizing member
2022- 5 Million Strong, Initiative to engage artists in the democratic process,
Organizing member
2020 - Contemporary Art League, Trade cooperative building unity, solidarity and equity
among art workers in Los Angeles County, Co-Founder
2017 - Air Projects , Research program for climate-focussed artists, Founding Director
2020/21 PPE Emergency Response, Founding Director, Multi--institutional artist-driven effort resulting in the donation of 125,000 face shields to Los Angeles County hospital workers while employing 200+ youth during the pandemic
Debra Scacco's research-based practice spans the creation of studio works, installations, public art, curating, teaching, writing, community engagement and oral history. Rooted in personal experiences of immigration, she re-envisions the visible and invisible lines that seek to establish boundaries of access and understanding.
Her work has been exhibited at galleries, institutions and public sites internationally including MOAH (Museum of Art and History), Lancaster; Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; LAX Airport, Los Angeles; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Viper Basel, Switzerland; Los Angeles State Historic Park, Los Angeles; Royale Projects, Los Angeles; James Cohen Gallery, New York and Patrick Heide Gallery, London. Her work is included in private and public collections including Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and CAA. Scacco's projects have been supported by National Endowment for the Arts, Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, The Durfee Foundation, Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, The Wilhelm Foundation, The Mellon Foundation and more. 1n 2019, she was acknowledged as a Cultural Trailblazer by the City of Los Angeles. In 2012, Scacco was the inaugural artist-in-residence at Ellis Island Museum and Statue of Liberty National Monument in conjunction with New Jersey City University.
Debra Scacco is Founding Director of climate-focussed creative research program Air Projects, Co-Director of Getty Pacific Standard Time project Brackish Water Los Angeles, and Co-Founder of art worker mutual aid cooperative Contemporary Art League. She is an organizing member of Artists Commit, an artist-led collective committed to a climate-conscious, resilient, and equitable future.Her efforts to lateralize knowledge and engage students in interdisciplinary research and an active studio practice include teaching at institutions including California State University Dominguez Hills and Occidental College.
Contact
Debra@DebraScacco.com
+1 310 699-5724
Selected CV
—
b. 1976, Staten Island, NY.
Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Water Gold Soil, MOAH Lancaster, 2022
2020 Compass Rose, Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica
2020 City Upon a Hill, Pluto Projects, Los Angeles
2019 Compass Rose, Oxy Arts, Los Angeles
2018 The Narrows, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles
2015 The Letting Go, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles
2013 The Space Between, Marine Contemporary, Los Angeles
2012 Richiama, Ellis Island Museum, New York
2012 Birds of Passage, Marine Contemporary, Los Angeles
2011 Forever In Between, Marine Art Salon, Los Angeles
Selected Public Works
2022 Harbor, Lincoln Park, Long Beach
2022 LA Stories, Figueroa Street, Highland Park, Los Angeles
2021 Networks of Power, Art in Residence (Western Mojave Desert)
2021 Living Memorial Garden, Los Angeles State Historic Park
2019 The Letting Go, LAX Airport (Arts Exhibition Program with Los Angeles World Airports and Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs)
2018 Origin and Destination Study, Los Angeles River
2018 The President Wilson, Statue of Liberty, New York City
2017 Origins: Los Angeles River 1815/1825, Los Angeles State Historic Park
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Confluence, Track 16, Los Angeles
2022 Unsettling California, University of California Santa Barbara
2021 Song of the Cicada, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
2021 Suturo, Suturo, Los Angeles
2020 Passing Time, Passing-Time.Org
2019 Lost in the Sky, LAX Airport, Los Angeles
2018 Archaeology of the Present, 411 Hewitt, Los Angeles
2018 Relative Space, Elevator Mondays, Los Angeles. Curated by Asha Bukojemsky
2018 AIR Artist-in-Residence, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
2017 VRBBQ, ICALA / Butcher Bird Studios, Los Angeles
2016 Office Hours, Beta Main, Los Angeles
2015 Via Negativa: The Transcendence of the unReal, South Bay Contemporary, Cerritos, California
2014 Salon Zürcher, Zürcher Studio, New York
2014 Reds, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
2013 Pulse New York, The Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC
2013 Drawing Now Paris, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
2012 (text)ure, Patrick Heide Contemporary, London, UK
2012 Artist-in-Residence, Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island, in conjunction with New Jersey City University
2011 If these walls could talk: A conversation, Charlie James Gallery and Marine Art Salon, Los Angeles
2010 Outside the Lines, Royale Projects, Los Angeles
2010 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2010 Salon No. 3, Marine, Los Angeles, 2010
2009 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London followed by national tour
Public Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Los Angeles
Hamilton Press, Los Angeles
Fidelity Investments, Houston
Ellis Island Museum, New York
London Chamber of Commerce, City of London
International Art Consultants, London
The Media Centre, London
Private collections internationally
Curatorial
2022 Confluence, Track 16, Los Angeles
2021 Latitude, BioScienceLA, Los Angeles
2021 Song of the Cicada, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
2021 Castle Garden, Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles
2018 Cycles, Sony Pictures Lot, Los Angeles
2018 La Reina de los Ángeles, Sturt Haaga Gallery (Descanso Gardens), Los Angeles
2018 Defining Line, Los Angeles, River, Co-curated with Nancy Baker Cahill
2017 On Going Home, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, 2017. Part of Getty initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Featuring Tanya Aguiñiga, Carmen Argote, Shagha Ariannia, Regina Mamou, Alexis Zoto
1998 - 2002 Spitz Gallery, London, Curator at East London gallery supporting contemporary emerging and mid-career artists
Public Speaking
2022 Art for Earth’s Sake: The Art World Meets the Crisis, Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles
2022 Beyond All Measure: The Sea, the Sky, the Horizon of Our Transitional Present, Fulcrum Arts, Los Angeles
2020 What’s in a Landscape: The Changing Face of Monuments, Art in Residence in collaboration with Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
2020 Systems in Concrete: Cars, Trains and the Relocation of Chinatown, Los Angeles Public Library
2020 Possible Futures: Developing Plural Practices, ICALA, Los Angeles
2020 Amplifying the Green New Deal, YEA! (Young Entertainment Activists) Climate Summit, Los Angeles
2020 Art, Architecture and Activism, American Institute of Architects (AIA| LA) 2°C Climate Symposium, Los Angeles
2019 Build Your Own Systems, Warner Bros Studios, Los Angeles
2019 LA as Lab, Claremont Graduate University, Los Angeles
2018 Cultures of Art & Tech, Creative Industries Colloquium, Sotheby's Institute of Art, Los Angeles
2018 On Water, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles
2018 Archaeology of the Present: Artists Addressing Climate Change. Moderated by Megan Steinman. Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (ICALA), Los Angeles
2018 Art in the Open, Los Angeles State Historic Park
2018 Artist Talk. The Narrows. Klowden Mann, Los Angeles
2017 On Going Home: Art, immigration and tertiary culture. Featuring Tanya Aguiñiga, Carmen Argote, Shagha Ariannia, Regina Mamou, Alexis Zoto. Charlie James Gallery
2017 Origins / Promotorx Talk. Los Angeles State Historic Park
2016 Artist Talk. The Letting Go, Klowden Mann
Guest Lectures 2016 —
CalArts, Cal State Dominguez Hills, Cal State Northridge, Occidental College, UC Santa Barbara
Selected Press
2022 Los Angeles Times, "As Drought Deepens, Nine L.A. Artists Think about Water”, Christopher Knight, August
2022 Los Angeles Times, "L.A. artists take on drought crisis in new show. One solution? Embrace impermanence", Deborah Vankin,August
2022 Mozaik Philanthropy, EcoSystem X, "Hope and Beauty on the Edge of Collapse: The Artist as Care-Giver and Composter in Times of Ecological Uncertainty", Elisabeth Buchet-Deák, July
2021 KCET, "Climate Change-Focused Artist Residency Maps Out a New Future in the Pandemic", Carol Cheh, May
2018 "Concrete is Fluid", Podcast interview, Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio, July
2018 Los Angeles Times, "How virtual art appearing along the L.A. River tackles gentrification, immigration and environmental issues", Anna Furman, November
2018 Los Angeles Magazine, "Artists Using Augmented Reality… in Powerful Places", Brittany Martin, August
2018 Art and Cake, "Debra Scacco at Klowden Mann", Shana Nys Dambrot, February
2018 Riot Material, "On Immigration, Liminality, and Ellis Island: Debra Scacco’s The Narrows", Ellen C Caldwell, January
2018 Los Angeles Review of Books, Featured Artist, January
2018 Contemporary Art Review LA (CARLA), "Debra Scacco at Klowden Mann", Aaron Horst, January
2018 "What Artists Listen To", Podcast interview, Pia Pack, August
2017 Feminist Crush, Podcast interview, Kitty Lindsay, March
2016 Kchung, Performance Now, Hosted by Carol Cheh & John Tain, December
2016 New American Paintings, "Light, Letting Go and the LA River", Ellen C, Caldwell, September
2016 Insert Blanc Press, "Classical Music For Artists", David Richards, Geoff Tuck, January
2015 Instagram interview feature, "Explorations of Light and Layers", Andrew Owen, May
2014 Huffington Post, "44 Stunning Art Studios That Will Inspire You To Get Back To Work", Priscilla Frank, August
2013 Huffington Post, "The Space Between", Elizabeth Sobieski, November
2013 Manor House Quarterly, "Dark Art", James Metze, November
2012 Art in America, Feature on Art Platform Los Angeles, Paul Soto, October
2012 WhiteHot Magazine, Birds of Passage review, Megan Frances, July
2012 Beautiful Decay, "Debra Scacco unlocks the 3 keys of greatness at Marine Contemporary", Daniel Rolnik, 12 June
2012 Los Angeles Times, "Debra Scacco maps the psyche at Marine Contemporary", Leah Ollman, 25 May
Organizations and Initiatives
2022 - Artists Commit, Artist-led initiative to raise climate-consciousness,
Organizing member
2022- 5 Million Strong, Initiative to engage artists in the democratic process,
Organizing member
2020 - Contemporary Art League, Trade cooperative building unity, solidarity and equity
among art workers in Los Angeles County, Co-Founder
2017 - Air Projects , Research program for climate-focussed artists, Founding Director
2020/21 PPE Emergency Response, Founding Director, Multi--institutional artist-driven effort resulting in the donation of 125,000 face shields to Los Angeles County hospital workers while employing 200+ youth during the pandemic
Debra Scacco's research-based practice spans the creation of studio works, installations, public art, curating, teaching, writing, community engagement and oral history. Rooted in personal experiences of immigration, she re-envisions the visible and invisible lines that seek to establish boundaries of access and understanding.
Her work has been exhibited at galleries, institutions and public sites internationally including MOAH (Museum of Art and History), Lancaster; Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; LAX Airport, Los Angeles; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Viper Basel, Switzerland; Los Angeles State Historic Park, Los Angeles; Royale Projects, Los Angeles; James Cohen Gallery, New York and Patrick Heide Gallery, London. Her work is included in private and public collections including Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and CAA. Scacco's projects have been supported by National Endowment for the Arts, Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, The Durfee Foundation, Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, The Wilhelm Foundation, The Mellon Foundation and more. 1n 2019, she was acknowledged as a Cultural Trailblazer by the City of Los Angeles. In 2012, Scacco was the inaugural artist-in-residence at Ellis Island Museum and Statue of Liberty National Monument in conjunction with New Jersey City University.
Debra Scacco is Founding Director of climate-focussed creative research program Air Projects, Co-Director of Getty Pacific Standard Time project Brackish Water Los Angeles, and Co-Founder of art worker mutual aid cooperative Contemporary Art League. She is an organizing member of Artists Commit, an artist-led collective committed to a climate-conscious, resilient, and equitable future.Her efforts to lateralize knowledge and engage students in interdisciplinary research and an active studio practice include teaching at institutions including California State University Dominguez Hills and Occidental College.
Contact
Debra@DebraScacco.com
+1 310 699-5724
Selected CV
—
b. 1976, Staten Island, NY.
Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Water Gold Soil, MOAH Lancaster, 2022
2020 Compass Rose, Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica
2020 City Upon a Hill, Pluto Projects, Los Angeles
2019 Compass Rose, Oxy Arts, Los Angeles
2018 The Narrows, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles
2015 The Letting Go, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles
2013 The Space Between, Marine Contemporary, Los Angeles
2012 Richiama, Ellis Island Museum, New York
2012 Birds of Passage, Marine Contemporary, Los Angeles
2011 Forever In Between, Marine Art Salon, Los Angeles
Selected Public Works
2022 Harbor, Lincoln Park, Long Beach
2022 LA Stories, Figueroa Street, Highland Park, Los Angeles
2021 Networks of Power, Art in Residence (Western Mojave Desert)
2021 Living Memorial Garden, Los Angeles State Historic Park
2019 The Letting Go, LAX Airport (Arts Exhibition Program with Los Angeles World Airports and Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs)
2018 Origin and Destination Study, Los Angeles River
2018 The President Wilson, Statue of Liberty, New York City
2017 Origins: Los Angeles River 1815/1825, Los Angeles State Historic Park
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Confluence, Track 16, Los Angeles
2022 Unsettling California, University of California Santa Barbara
2021 Song of the Cicada, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
2021 Suturo, Suturo, Los Angeles
2020 Passing Time, Passing-Time.Org
2019 Lost in the Sky, LAX Airport, Los Angeles
2018 Archaeology of the Present, 411 Hewitt, Los Angeles
2018 Relative Space, Elevator Mondays, Los Angeles. Curated by Asha Bukojemsky
2018 AIR Artist-in-Residence, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
2017 VRBBQ, ICALA / Butcher Bird Studios, Los Angeles
2016 Office Hours, Beta Main, Los Angeles
2015 Via Negativa: The Transcendence of the unReal, South Bay Contemporary, Cerritos, California
2014 Salon Zürcher, Zürcher Studio, New York
2014 Reds, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
2013 Pulse New York, The Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC
2013 Drawing Now Paris, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
2012 (text)ure, Patrick Heide Contemporary, London, UK
2012 Artist-in-Residence, Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island, in conjunction with New Jersey City University
2011 If these walls could talk: A conversation, Charlie James Gallery and Marine Art Salon, Los Angeles
2010 Outside the Lines, Royale Projects, Los Angeles
2010 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2010 Salon No. 3, Marine, Los Angeles, 2010
2009 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London followed by national tour
Public Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Los Angeles
Hamilton Press, Los Angeles
Fidelity Investments, Houston
Ellis Island Museum, New York
London Chamber of Commerce, City of London
International Art Consultants, London
The Media Centre, London
Private collections internationally
Curatorial
2022 Confluence, Track 16, Los Angeles
2021 Latitude, BioScienceLA, Los Angeles
2021 Song of the Cicada, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
2021 Castle Garden, Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles
2018 Cycles, Sony Pictures Lot, Los Angeles
2018 La Reina de los Ángeles, Sturt Haaga Gallery (Descanso Gardens), Los Angeles
2018 Defining Line, Los Angeles, River, Co-curated with Nancy Baker Cahill
2017 On Going Home, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, 2017. Part of Getty initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Featuring Tanya Aguiñiga, Carmen Argote, Shagha Ariannia, Regina Mamou, Alexis Zoto
1998 - 2002 Spitz Gallery, London, Curator at East London gallery supporting contemporary emerging and mid-career artists
Public Speaking
2022 Art for Earth’s Sake: The Art World Meets the Crisis, Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles
2022 Beyond All Measure: The Sea, the Sky, the Horizon of Our Transitional Present, Fulcrum Arts, Los Angeles
2020 What’s in a Landscape: The Changing Face of Monuments, Art in Residence in collaboration with Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
2020 Systems in Concrete: Cars, Trains and the Relocation of Chinatown, Los Angeles Public Library
2020 Possible Futures: Developing Plural Practices, ICALA, Los Angeles
2020 Amplifying the Green New Deal, YEA! (Young Entertainment Activists) Climate Summit, Los Angeles
2020 Art, Architecture and Activism, American Institute of Architects (AIA| LA) 2°C Climate Symposium, Los Angeles
2019 Build Your Own Systems, Warner Bros Studios, Los Angeles
2019 LA as Lab, Claremont Graduate University, Los Angeles
2018 Cultures of Art & Tech, Creative Industries Colloquium, Sotheby's Institute of Art, Los Angeles
2018 On Water, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles
2018 Archaeology of the Present: Artists Addressing Climate Change. Moderated by Megan Steinman. Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (ICALA), Los Angeles
2018 Art in the Open, Los Angeles State Historic Park
2018 Artist Talk. The Narrows. Klowden Mann, Los Angeles
2017 On Going Home: Art, immigration and tertiary culture. Featuring Tanya Aguiñiga, Carmen Argote, Shagha Ariannia, Regina Mamou, Alexis Zoto. Charlie James Gallery
2017 Origins / Promotorx Talk. Los Angeles State Historic Park
2016 Artist Talk. The Letting Go, Klowden Mann
Guest Lectures 2016 —
CalArts, Cal State Dominguez Hills, Cal State Northridge, Occidental College, UC Santa Barbara
Selected Press
2022 Los Angeles Times, "As Drought Deepens, Nine L.A. Artists Think about Water”, Christopher Knight, August
2022 Los Angeles Times, "L.A. artists take on drought crisis in new show. One solution? Embrace impermanence", Deborah Vankin,August
2022 Mozaik Philanthropy, EcoSystem X, "Hope and Beauty on the Edge of Collapse: The Artist as Care-Giver and Composter in Times of Ecological Uncertainty", Elisabeth Buchet-Deák, July
2021 KCET, "Climate Change-Focused Artist Residency Maps Out a New Future in the Pandemic", Carol Cheh, May
2018 "Concrete is Fluid", Podcast interview, Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio, July
2018 Los Angeles Times, "How virtual art appearing along the L.A. River tackles gentrification, immigration and environmental issues", Anna Furman, November
2018 Los Angeles Magazine, "Artists Using Augmented Reality… in Powerful Places", Brittany Martin, August
2018 Art and Cake, "Debra Scacco at Klowden Mann", Shana Nys Dambrot, February
2018 Riot Material, "On Immigration, Liminality, and Ellis Island: Debra Scacco’s The Narrows", Ellen C Caldwell, January
2018 Los Angeles Review of Books, Featured Artist, January
2018 Contemporary Art Review LA (CARLA), "Debra Scacco at Klowden Mann", Aaron Horst, January
2018 "What Artists Listen To", Podcast interview, Pia Pack, August
2017 Feminist Crush, Podcast interview, Kitty Lindsay, March
2016 Kchung, Performance Now, Hosted by Carol Cheh & John Tain, December
2016 New American Paintings, "Light, Letting Go and the LA River", Ellen C, Caldwell, September
2016 Insert Blanc Press, "Classical Music For Artists", David Richards, Geoff Tuck, January
2015 Instagram interview feature, "Explorations of Light and Layers", Andrew Owen, May
2014 Huffington Post, "44 Stunning Art Studios That Will Inspire You To Get Back To Work", Priscilla Frank, August
2013 Huffington Post, "The Space Between", Elizabeth Sobieski, November
2013 Manor House Quarterly, "Dark Art", James Metze, November
2012 Art in America, Feature on Art Platform Los Angeles, Paul Soto, October
2012 WhiteHot Magazine, Birds of Passage review, Megan Frances, July
2012 Beautiful Decay, "Debra Scacco unlocks the 3 keys of greatness at Marine Contemporary", Daniel Rolnik, 12 June
2012 Los Angeles Times, "Debra Scacco maps the psyche at Marine Contemporary", Leah Ollman, 25 May
Organizations and Initiatives
2022 - Artists Commit, Artist-led initiative to raise climate-consciousness,
Organizing member
2022- 5 Million Strong, Initiative to engage artists in the democratic process,
Organizing member
2020 - Contemporary Art League, Trade cooperative building unity, solidarity and equity
among art workers in Los Angeles County, Co-Founder
2017 - Air Projects , Research program for climate-focussed artists, Founding Director
2020/21 PPE Emergency Response, Founding Director, Multi--institutional artist-driven effort resulting in the donation of 125,000 face shields to Los Angeles County hospital workers while employing 200+ youth during the pandemic
Debra Scacco's research-based practice spans the creation of studio works, installations, public art, curating, teaching, writing, community engagement and oral history. Rooted in personal experiences of immigration, she re-envisions the visible and invisible lines that seek to establish boundaries of access and understanding.
Her work has been exhibited at galleries, institutions and public sites internationally including MOAH (Museum of Art and History), Lancaster; Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; LAX Airport, Los Angeles; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Viper Basel, Switzerland; Los Angeles State Historic Park, Los Angeles; Royale Projects, Los Angeles; James Cohen Gallery, New York and Patrick Heide Gallery, London. Her work is included in private and public collections including Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and CAA. Scacco's projects have been supported by National Endowment for the Arts, Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, The Durfee Foundation, Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, The Wilhelm Foundation, The Mellon Foundation and more. 1n 2019, she was acknowledged as a Cultural Trailblazer by the City of Los Angeles. In 2012, Scacco was the inaugural artist-in-residence at Ellis Island Museum and Statue of Liberty National Monument in conjunction with New Jersey City University.
Debra Scacco is Founding Director of climate-focussed creative research program Air Projects, Co-Director of Getty Pacific Standard Time project Brackish Water Los Angeles, and Co-Founder of art worker mutual aid cooperative Contemporary Art League. She is an organizing member of Artists Commit, an artist-led collective committed to a climate-conscious, resilient, and equitable future.Her efforts to lateralize knowledge and engage students in interdisciplinary research and an active studio practice include teaching at institutions including California State University Dominguez Hills and Occidental College.
Contact
Debra@DebraScacco.com
+1 310 699-5724
Selected CV
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b. 1976, Staten Island, NY.
Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Water Gold Soil, MOAH Lancaster, 2022
2020 Compass Rose, Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica
2020 City Upon a Hill, Pluto Projects, Los Angeles
2019 Compass Rose, Oxy Arts, Los Angeles
2018 The Narrows, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles
2015 The Letting Go, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles
2013 The Space Between, Marine Contemporary, Los Angeles
2012 Richiama, Ellis Island Museum, New York
2012 Birds of Passage, Marine Contemporary, Los Angeles
2011 Forever In Between, Marine Art Salon, Los Angeles
Selected Public Works
2022 Harbor, Lincoln Park, Long Beach
2022 LA Stories, Figueroa Street, Highland Park, Los Angeles
2021 Networks of Power, Art in Residence (Western Mojave Desert)
2021 Living Memorial Garden, Los Angeles State Historic Park
2019 The Letting Go, LAX Airport (Arts Exhibition Program with Los Angeles World Airports and Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs)
2018 Origin and Destination Study, Los Angeles River
2018 The President Wilson, Statue of Liberty, New York City
2017 Origins: Los Angeles River 1815/1825, Los Angeles State Historic Park
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Confluence, Track 16, Los Angeles
2022 Unsettling California, University of California Santa Barbara
2021 Song of the Cicada, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
2021 Suturo, Suturo, Los Angeles
2020 Passing Time, Passing-Time.Org
2019 Lost in the Sky, LAX Airport, Los Angeles
2018 Archaeology of the Present, 411 Hewitt, Los Angeles
2018 Relative Space, Elevator Mondays, Los Angeles. Curated by Asha Bukojemsky
2018 AIR Artist-in-Residence, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
2017 VRBBQ, ICALA / Butcher Bird Studios, Los Angeles
2016 Office Hours, Beta Main, Los Angeles
2015 Via Negativa: The Transcendence of the unReal, South Bay Contemporary, Cerritos, California
2014 Salon Zürcher, Zürcher Studio, New York
2014 Reds, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
2013 Pulse New York, The Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC
2013 Drawing Now Paris, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
2012 (text)ure, Patrick Heide Contemporary, London, UK
2012 Artist-in-Residence, Statue of Liberty National Monument and
Ellis Island, in conjunction with New Jersey City University
2011 If these walls could talk: A conversation, Charlie James Gallery and Marine Art Salon, Los Angeles
2010 Outside the Lines, Royale Projects, Los Angeles
2010 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2010 Salon No. 3, Marine, Los Angeles, 2010
2009 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London followed by national tour
Public Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Los Angeles
Hamilton Press, Los Angeles
Fidelity Investments, Houston
Ellis Island Museum, New York
London Chamber of Commerce, City of London
International Art Consultants, London
The Media Centre, London
Private collections internationally
Curatorial
2022 Confluence, Track 16, Los Angeles
2021 Latitude, BioScienceLA, Los Angeles
2021 Song of the Cicada, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
2021 Castle Garden, Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles
2018 Cycles, Sony Pictures Lot, Los Angeles
2018 La Reina de los Ángeles, Sturt Haaga Gallery (Descanso Gardens), Los Angeles
2018 Defining Line, Los Angeles, River, Co-curated with Nancy Baker Cahill
2017 On Going Home, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, 2017. Part of Getty initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Featuring Tanya Aguiñiga, Carmen Argote, Shagha Ariannia, Regina Mamou, Alexis Zoto
1998 - 2002 Spitz Gallery, London, Curator at East London gallery supporting contemporary emerging and mid-career artists
Public Speaking
2022 Art for Earth’s Sake: The Art World Meets the Crisis, Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles
2022 Beyond All Measure: The Sea, the Sky, the Horizon of Our Transitional Present, Fulcrum Arts, Los Angeles
2020 What’s in a Landscape: The Changing Face of Monuments, Art in Residence in collaboration with Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
2020 Systems in Concrete: Cars, Trains and the Relocation of Chinatown, Los Angeles Public Library
2020 Possible Futures: Developing Plural Practices, ICALA, Los Angeles
2020 Amplifying the Green New Deal, YEA! (Young Entertainment Activists) Climate Summit, Los Angeles
2020 Art, Architecture and Activism, American Institute of Architects (AIA| LA) 2°C Climate Symposium, Los Angeles
2019 Build Your Own Systems, Warner Bros Studios, Los Angeles
2019 LA as Lab, Claremont Graduate University, Los Angeles
2018 Cultures of Art & Tech, Creative Industries Colloquium, Sotheby's Institute of Art, Los Angeles
2018 On Water, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles
2018 Archaeology of the Present: Artists Addressing Climate Change. Moderated by Megan Steinman. Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (ICALA), Los Angeles
2018 Art in the Open, Los Angeles State Historic Park
2018 Artist Talk. The Narrows. Klowden Mann, Los Angeles
2017 On Going Home: Art, immigration and tertiary culture. Featuring Tanya Aguiñiga, Carmen Argote, Shagha Ariannia, Regina Mamou, Alexis Zoto. Charlie James Gallery
2017 Origins / Promotorx Talk. Los Angeles State Historic Park
2016 Artist Talk. The Letting Go, Klowden Mann
Guest Lectures 2016 —
CalArts, Cal State Dominguez Hills, Cal State Northridge, Occidental College, UC Santa Barbara
Selected Press
2022 Los Angeles Times, "As Drought Deepens, Nine L.A. Artists Think about Water”, Christopher Knight, August
2022 Los Angeles Times, "L.A. artists take on drought crisis in new show. One solution? Embrace impermanence", Deborah Vankin,August
2022 Mozaik Philanthropy, EcoSystem X, "Hope and Beauty on the Edge of Collapse: The Artist as Care-Giver and Composter in Times of Ecological Uncertainty", Elisabeth Buchet-Deák, July
2021 KCET, "Climate Change-Focused Artist Residency Maps Out a New Future in the Pandemic", Carol Cheh, May
2018 "Concrete is Fluid", Podcast interview, Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio, July
2018 Los Angeles Times, "How virtual art appearing along the L.A. River tackles gentrification, immigration and environmental issues", Anna Furman, November
2018 Los Angeles Magazine, "Artists Using Augmented Reality… in Powerful Places", Brittany Martin, August
2018 Art and Cake, "Debra Scacco at Klowden Mann", Shana Nys Dambrot, February
2018 Riot Material, "On Immigration, Liminality, and Ellis Island: Debra Scacco’s The Narrows", Ellen C Caldwell, January
2018 Los Angeles Review of Books, Featured Artist, January
2018 Contemporary Art Review LA (CARLA), "Debra Scacco at Klowden Mann", Aaron Horst, January
2018 "What Artists Listen To", Podcast interview, Pia Pack, August
2017 Feminist Crush, Podcast interview, Kitty Lindsay, March
2016 Kchung, Performance Now, Hosted by Carol Cheh & John Tain, December
2016 New American Paintings, "Light, Letting Go and the LA River", Ellen C, Caldwell, September
2016 Insert Blanc Press, "Classical Music For Artists", David Richards, Geoff Tuck, January
2015 Instagram interview feature, "Explorations of Light and Layers", Andrew Owen, May
2014 Huffington Post, "44 Stunning Art Studios That Will Inspire You To Get Back To Work", Priscilla Frank, August
2013 Huffington Post, "The Space Between", Elizabeth Sobieski, November
2013 Manor House Quarterly, "Dark Art", James Metze, November
2012 Art in America, Feature on Art Platform Los Angeles, Paul Soto, October
2012 WhiteHot Magazine, Birds of Passage review, Megan Frances, July
2012 Beautiful Decay, "Debra Scacco unlocks the 3 keys of greatness at Marine Contemporary", Daniel Rolnik, 12 June
2012 Los Angeles Times, "Debra Scacco maps the psyche at Marine Contemporary", Leah Ollman, 25 May
Organizations and Initiatives
2022 - Artists Commit, Artist-led initiative to raise climate-consciousness,
Organizing member
2022- 5 Million Strong, Initiative to engage artists in the democratic process,
Organizing member
2020 - Contemporary Art League, Trade cooperative building unity, solidarity and equity
among art workers in Los Angeles County, Co-Founder
2017 - Air Projects , Research program for climate-focussed artists, Founding Director
2020/21 PPE Emergency Response, Founding Director, Multi--institutional artist-driven effort resulting in the donation of 125,000 face shields to Los Angeles County hospital workers while employing 200+ youth during the pandemic
Debra Scacco's research-based practice spans the creation of studio works, installations, public art, curating, teaching, writing, community engagement and oral history. Rooted in personal experiences of immigration, she re-envisions the visible and invisible lines that seek to establish boundaries of access and understanding.
Her work has been exhibited at galleries, institutions and public sites internationally including MOAH (Museum of Art and History), Lancaster; Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; LAX Airport, Los Angeles; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Viper Basel, Switzerland; Los Angeles State Historic Park, Los Angeles; Royale Projects, Los Angeles; James Cohen Gallery, New York and Patrick Heide Gallery, London. Her work is included in private and public collections including Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and CAA. Scacco's projects have been supported by National Endowment for the Arts, Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, The Durfee Foundation, Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, The Wilhelm Foundation, The Mellon Foundation and more. 1n 2019, she was acknowledged as a Cultural Trailblazer by the City of Los Angeles. In 2012, Scacco was the inaugural artist-in-residence at Ellis Island Museum and Statue of Liberty National Monument in conjunction with New Jersey City University.
Debra Scacco is Founding Director of climate-focussed creative research program Air Projects, Co-Director of Getty Pacific Standard Time project Brackish Water Los Angeles, and Co-Founder of art worker mutual aid cooperative Contemporary Art League. She is an organizing member of Artists Commit, an artist-led collective committed to a climate-conscious, resilient, and equitable future.Her efforts to lateralize knowledge and engage students in interdisciplinary research and an active studio practice include teaching at institutions including California State University Dominguez Hills and Occidental College.
Contact
Debra@DebraScacco.com
+1 310 699-5724
Selected CV
—
b. 1976, Staten Island, NY.
Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Water Gold Soil, MOAH Lancaster, 2022
2020 Compass Rose, Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica
2020 City Upon a Hill, Pluto Projects, Los Angeles
2019 Compass Rose, Oxy Arts, Los Angeles
2018 The Narrows, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles
2015 The Letting Go, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles
2013 The Space Between, Marine Contemporary, Los Angeles
2012 Richiama, Ellis Island Museum, New York
2012 Birds of Passage, Marine Contemporary, Los Angeles
2011 Forever In Between, Marine Art Salon, Los Angeles
Selected Public Works
2022 Harbor, Lincoln Park, Long Beach
2022 LA Stories, Figueroa Street, Highland Park, Los Angeles
2021 Networks of Power, Art in Residence (Western Mojave Desert)
2021 Living Memorial Garden, Los Angeles State Historic Park
2019 The Letting Go, LAX Airport (Arts Exhibition Program with Los Angeles World Airports and Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs)
2018 Origin and Destination Study, Los Angeles River
2018 The President Wilson, Statue of Liberty, New York City
2017 Origins: Los Angeles River 1815/1825, Los Angeles State Historic Park
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Confluence, Track 16, Los Angeles
2022 Unsettling California, University of California Santa Barbara
2021 Song of the Cicada, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
2021 Suturo, Suturo, Los Angeles
2020 Passing Time, Passing-Time.Org
2019 Lost in the Sky, LAX Airport, Los Angeles
2018 Archaeology of the Present, 411 Hewitt, Los Angeles
2018 Relative Space, Elevator Mondays, Los Angeles. Curated by Asha Bukojemsky
2018 AIR Artist-in-Residence, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
2017 VRBBQ, ICALA / Butcher Bird Studios, Los Angeles
2016 Office Hours, Beta Main, Los Angeles
2015 Via Negativa: The Transcendence of the unReal, South Bay Contemporary, Cerritos, California
2014 Salon Zürcher, Zürcher Studio, New York
2014 Reds, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
2013 Pulse New York, The Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC
2013 Drawing Now Paris, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
2012 (text)ure, Patrick Heide Contemporary, London, UK
2012 Artist-in-Residence, Statue of Liberty National Monument and
Ellis Island, in conjunction with New Jersey City University
2011 If these walls could talk: A conversation, Charlie James Gallery and Marine Art Salon, Los Angeles
2010 Outside the Lines, Royale Projects, Los Angeles
2010 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2010 Salon No. 3, Marine, Los Angeles, 2010
2009 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London followed by national tour
Public Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Los Angeles
Hamilton Press, Los Angeles
Fidelity Investments, Houston
Ellis Island Museum, New York
London Chamber of Commerce, City of London
International Art Consultants, London
The Media Centre, London
Private collections internationally
Curatorial
2022 Confluence, Track 16, Los Angeles
2021 Latitude, BioScienceLA, Los Angeles
2021 Song of the Cicada, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
2021 Castle Garden, Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles
2018 Cycles, Sony Pictures Lot, Los Angeles
2018 La Reina de los Ángeles, Sturt Haaga Gallery (Descanso Gardens), Los Angeles
2018 Defining Line, Los Angeles, River, Co-curated with Nancy Baker Cahill
2017 On Going Home, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, 2017. Part of Getty initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Featuring Tanya Aguiñiga, Carmen Argote, Shagha Ariannia, Regina Mamou, Alexis Zoto
1998 - 2002 Spitz Gallery, London, Curator at East London gallery supporting contemporary emerging and mid-career artists
Public Speaking
2022 Art for Earth’s Sake: The Art World Meets the Crisis, Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles
2022 Beyond All Measure: The Sea, the Sky, the Horizon of Our Transitional Present, Fulcrum Arts, Los Angeles
2020 What’s in a Landscape: The Changing Face of Monuments, Art in Residence in collaboration with Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
2020 Systems in Concrete: Cars, Trains and the Relocation of Chinatown, Los Angeles Public Library
2020 Possible Futures: Developing Plural Practices, ICALA, Los Angeles
2020 Amplifying the Green New Deal, YEA! (Young Entertainment Activists) Climate Summit, Los Angeles
2020 Art, Architecture and Activism, American Institute of Architects (AIA| LA) 2°C Climate Symposium, Los Angeles
2019 Build Your Own Systems, Warner Bros Studios, Los Angeles
2019 LA as Lab, Claremont Graduate University, Los Angeles
2018 Cultures of Art & Tech, Creative Industries Colloquium, Sotheby's Institute of Art, Los Angeles
2018 On Water, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles
2018 Archaeology of the Present: Artists Addressing Climate Change. Moderated by Megan Steinman. Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (ICALA), Los Angeles
2018 Art in the Open, Los Angeles State Historic Park
2018 Artist Talk. The Narrows. Klowden Mann, Los Angeles
2017 On Going Home: Art, immigration and tertiary culture. Featuring Tanya Aguiñiga, Carmen Argote, Shagha Ariannia, Regina Mamou, Alexis Zoto. Charlie James Gallery
2017 Origins / Promotorx Talk. Los Angeles State Historic Park
2016 Artist Talk. The Letting Go, Klowden Mann
Guest Lectures 2016 —
CalArts, Cal State Dominguez Hills, Cal State Northridge, Occidental College, UC Santa Barbara
Selected Press
2022 Los Angeles Times, "As Drought Deepens, Nine L.A. Artists Think about Water”, Christopher Knight, August
2022 Los Angeles Times, "L.A. artists take on drought crisis in new show. One solution? Embrace impermanence", Deborah Vankin,August
2022 Mozaik Philanthropy, EcoSystem X, "Hope and Beauty on the Edge of Collapse: The Artist as Care-Giver and Composter in Times of Ecological Uncertainty", Elisabeth Buchet-Deák, July
2021 KCET, "Climate Change-Focused Artist Residency Maps Out a New Future in the Pandemic", Carol Cheh, May
2018 "Concrete is Fluid", Podcast interview, Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio, July
2018 Los Angeles Times, "How virtual art appearing along the L.A. River tackles gentrification, immigration and environmental issues", Anna Furman, November
2018 Los Angeles Magazine, "Artists Using Augmented Reality… in Powerful Places", Brittany Martin, August
2018 Art and Cake, "Debra Scacco at Klowden Mann", Shana Nys Dambrot, February
2018 Riot Material, "On Immigration, Liminality, and Ellis Island: Debra Scacco’s The Narrows", Ellen C Caldwell, January
2018 Los Angeles Review of Books, Featured Artist, January
2018 Contemporary Art Review LA (CARLA), "Debra Scacco at Klowden Mann", Aaron Horst, January
2018 "What Artists Listen To", Podcast interview, Pia Pack, August
2017 Feminist Crush, Podcast interview, Kitty Lindsay, March
2016 Kchung, Performance Now, Hosted by Carol Cheh & John Tain, December
2016 New American Paintings, "Light, Letting Go and the LA River", Ellen C, Caldwell, September
2016 Insert Blanc Press, "Classical Music For Artists", David Richards, Geoff Tuck, January
2015 Instagram interview feature, "Explorations of Light and Layers", Andrew Owen, May
2014 Huffington Post, "44 Stunning Art Studios That Will Inspire You To Get Back To Work", Priscilla Frank, August
2013 Huffington Post, "The Space Between", Elizabeth Sobieski, November
2013 Manor House Quarterly, "Dark Art", James Metze, November
2012 Art in America, Feature on Art Platform Los Angeles, Paul Soto, October
2012 WhiteHot Magazine, Birds of Passage review, Megan Frances, July
2012 Beautiful Decay, "Debra Scacco unlocks the 3 keys of greatness at Marine Contemporary", Daniel Rolnik, 12 June
2012 Los Angeles Times, "Debra Scacco maps the psyche at Marine Contemporary", Leah Ollman, 25 May
Organizations and Initiatives
2022 - Artists Commit, Artist-led initiative to raise climate-consciousness,
Organizing member
2022- 5 Million Strong, Initiative to engage artists in the democratic process,
Organizing member
2020 - Contemporary Art League, Trade cooperative building unity, solidarity and equity
among art workers in Los Angeles County, Co-Founder
2017 - Air Projects , Research program for climate-focussed artists, Founding Director
2020/21 PPE Emergency Response, Founding Director, Multi--institutional artist-driven effort resulting in the donation of 125,000 face shields to Los Angeles County hospital workers while employing 200+ youth during the pandemic